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On Sunday, September 20, 2009, the US President asked to be interviewed on five political news channels in one day: CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Univision.
This followed his request to address a joint session of Congress on September 9, 2009, (preempting prime time advertisers) and preceded his scheduled hour-long appearance on the Monday, September 21, 2009, David Letterman show — the late-night comedian who recently gratuitously trashed Sarah Palin’s underage daughter.
A hard sell for the main stream media ...
Although the precise count is uncertain, Barack Obama is, relative to his time in office, now the most publicly exposed President in US history.
Obama the Unknown
Despite massive publicity, Obama is the President whose prior record and personal views have been subject to less critical media scrutiny than any of his predecessors.
Important issues, such as the future of the dollar, the recovery of employment, a potential trade war with China, the future of NATO, and the outlook for inflation are now tied directly to Obama’s waning popularity.
In the minds of perhaps half the population, the lower Obama’s popularity, the better the outlook for the United States.
Seemingly unable to change course and abandon his radical supporters, the President’s chances of regaining public approval now depends, almost entirely, on the continued backing of the Mainstream Media.
This quote from Bloomberg puts Obama’s Sunday Blitz in context:
The first person to appear on five Sunday shows was William Ginsburg, who was the lawyer for White House intern Monica Lewinsky at the height of the sex scandal involving then-President Bill Clinton in 1998. The last was
Clinton’s wife, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, now Obama’s Secretary of State. She hit the shows, including Fox, on Sept. 23, 2007, as candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. The main topic: her plan for overhauling the health-care system.
Mainstream Media’s heavy burden
President Obama has a fundamental problem — his policies of unprecedented increases in government spending, higher taxes on the entire population, greater government intervention in the lives of voters, and a perceived weakening in national defense — are not consistent with the beliefs and values of most Americans.
He is ruling from the far, far left.
Media bias is now widely acknowledged
The Mainstream Media is finding it harder and harder to prop up the Obama Presidency.
Furthermore, members of the media, even on the left, are uncomfortable in their role of perpetual brown-noses. Their ratings and revenues are plunging, along with Obama’s popularity.
Worse still, by blatantly ignoring Fox News in his Sunday Blitz, Obama, in effect, labeled the rest of the media as sycophants and boot-licks that could be trusted to blindly follow his lead — without respect for the truth.
Fox divides and conquers
In contrast, the Main Stream Media’s competition, Fox News, is now the most popular US cable news channel by a wide margin.
Fox News proclaims its “fair and balanced” coverage of the Obama administration.
While the Main Stream Media fights among themselves for a piece of the shrinking market segment that still is willing to listen to pro-Obama propaganda, Fox News reigns supreme with the people — now the majority — who want to hear what they are more likely to believe.
The poison pill that came with Obama’s Sunday Blitz — at least for the Main Stream Media — is that a government-controlled press is never popular or long-tolerated in the United States.
Today, to find out what is happening in US politics, people go to sources that are still considered to be independent of the government.
Fox News: fair and balanced
Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and other vehicles of News Corporation, are now widely perceived as independent of the Obama administration.
However, most of Europe and Asia does not have access to Fox News — getting their views of the United States from that shrinking segment of the press in the thrall of the Obama administration. I recently traveled to South America and was astounded to find that many people that I would ordinarily consider to be well-informed, had no idea of the mounting domestic opposition to Barack Obama.
Countries with access to Fox News (Wikipedia)
If you live in San Francisco, in Nancy Pelosi’s district, and only watch MSNBC, you might not even be aware that the Tea Party movement brought over one million concerned voters to Washington DC to protest Obama’s policies.
Nevertheless, things are changing.
Even Time Magazine — often seen as a lapdog of the Obama administration — was forced to put a picture of Glenn Beck on its cover, thereby recognizing the dominance of the Fox channel.
A more representative sign of the times would have been for TIME to put Obama’s now famous Joker picture (widely publicized on the Internet) and an acorn, as shown above, on its cover, but TIME is too far to the left and lacks the independence to express such a view.
The Mainstream Media, without the trust of the majority of the people, will have a hard time delivering what President Obama expects.
The new face of investigative journalism
On September 9, 2009, two young investigative journalists, Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe, on a budget of $1,300, released a hidden-camera video in which they posed as a prostitute and a pimp in order to elicit a response from ACORN, the huge, nationwide organization that performs lobbying and champions liberal and labor-oriented causes — closely associated with Barack Obama and the Democrat Party.
According to the article in Wikipedia:
In the edited video, two employees in ACORN’s Baltimore office appear to offer unethical advice to the two regarding home loans, tax evasion, and disguising the identities of underaged sex workers trafficked from El Salvador.
The two subjects were fired by ACORN after the video’s release. Similar videos followed, filmed in Washington, DC, Brooklyn (New York), San Diego, and San Bernardino, California.
Following the release of the Washington, DC and New York videos, the Senate passed amendments to pending bills to exclude ACORN from Housing and Urban Development and Interior Department funding.
At 20, Hannah Giles is already in wikipedia, the world's largest encyclopedia
The House of Representatives subsequently voted an amendment that denies all federal funds to the group. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced an investigation to ensure that state grants given to ACORN were properly spent on tax-preparation and loan-counseling services. Concurrently, New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn suspended all ACORN grants sponsored by City Council members as Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes conducted an investigation.
Hannah Giles is a 20 year old college student who became interested in what she describes as “exposing social injustice and abuse of power” when she attended a conference in Washington, DC in 2007.
She is currently studying journalism at Florida International University and is a columnist for BigGovernment.com.
James E. O’Keefe III is [a 25 year old] investigative journalist and conservative activist. He was the Founder and Editor in chief of The Centurion while attending Rutgers University.
Journalism is not dead
Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe demonstrated that, despite the power and money of the Mainstream Media, two idealistic young people, on a shoe-string budget, can quickly humble a US President by exposing crime and corruption in an organization with which he has been closely associated.
Florida International University ... "There be real journalist here"
This is a victory for US First Amendment Rights. What Hannah Giles demonstrated as a journalist student at Florida Atlanta University shamed the thousands of “journalists” whose alma mater is the prestigious Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism — the spawning ground for so many in the Mainstream Media.
Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe also demonstrated that the younger generation is not “brain dead” and “in the bag” for Barack Obama.
Hannah Giles, 20 years old, gained more fame and respect than thousands of Mainstream journalists after a lifetime of work. One would expect other young journalists from non-Ivy League schools, throughout the United States, to follow her example.
This does not bode well for Barack Obama.
ACORN — Obama’s bête noire
Although on Obama’s Sunday Blitz, only one Mainstream interviewer had the temerity to question him about ACORN — and then only timidly — Fox News’ Chris Wallace aggressively interviewed ACORN’s CEO, Bertha Lewis — stealing the spotlight from Obama’s boring, self-serving talks elsewhere.
Chris Wallace, on the same show and at the same time, interviewed Congressman Darrel Issa (R-CA), ranking member of the Oversight Subcommittee on Domestic Policy, who had just released a report on a Congressional investigation of ACORN, entitled, “Is ACORN Intentionally Structured as a Criminal Enterprise?”, answering in the affirmative.
The links between ACORN — now associated with a criminal enterprise by a Congressional body — and Barack Obama, the US President, have the potential, in time, to bring down this president, just as Watergate destroyed Richard Nixon.
Glenn Beck, of the Fox Channel and on the cover of Time Magazine, successfully encouraged over one million Americans to descend on Washington on 9/12, driving Obama out of town to speak at a safe labor union rally, is now asking for current day “deep throats” to come forth and spill the beans on Obama and corruption.
The media that Obama cannot control, the Internet, has thousands of blogs, studies, and reports that describe in detail ACORN activities and its links to Barack Obama, the Weather Underground, the Service Employees International Union, and other radical organizations and “community organizers”.
Obama feigns ignorance
During Obama’s Sunday Blitz, only one interviewer asked Obama about ACORN. Here is the exchange:
STEPHANOPOULOS: How about the funding for ACORN?
OBAMA: You know, if — frankly, it’s not really something I’ve followed closely. I didn’t even know that ACORN was getting a whole lot of federal money.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Both the Senate and the House have voted to cut it off.
OBAMA: You know, what I know is, is that what I saw on that video was certainly inappropriate and deserves to be investigated.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So you’re not committing to — to cut off the federal funding?
OBAMA: George, this is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to.
“Inappropriate” behavior? “Not something I’m paying a lot of attention to?”
This gives new depth of meaning to the word “disingenuous”.
What do you think will happen from here?
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